[qwertycodepl]

I totally understand your point - Astra doesn’t do register allocation or full parsing, so strictly speaking, it’s not a compiler in the traditional sense.

I used the term "compiler" because for many developers, it’s strongly associated with "turning source code into a single binary." That’s what Astra does at a practical level - even if it's technically just bundling and embedding into a node executable using SEA and postject.

[quotemstr]

> it’s strongly associated with "turning source code into a single binary."

Using things because they sound nice without thinking about whether they make sense is pretty much the whole JavaScript community. :)

[Carrok]

This whole thread was uncalled for honestly. It takes source, it makes an exe, that meets the definition for compiler to me. Your pedantry is not useful.

[sleepdeep]

How would you define the difference between a compiler and a linker?

[dontlikeyoueith]

This is just dishonest marketing then.